Senior Security Engineer – Remote LATAM, Threat Hunting

Werben HR; Bogotá; A distancia; COP 279.475.982 - 419.213.973; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Werben HR is looking for a Sr Security Engineer to support a high-impact SaaS platform. This remote position focuses on application security and cloud infrastructure security, ensuring the protection of sensitive data across large-scale environments.

The engineer will triage security vulnerabilities, collaborate with engineering teams on remediation efforts, and lead proactive threat hunting initiatives. Excellent experience with cloud security (AWS/GCP) and threat hunting programs is required.

Formación

• Experience building or running a threat hunting program.
• Background in regulated environments (healthcare, fintech, or similar).
• Experience evaluating or implementing vulnerability scanning tools.
• Cloud security expertise (AWS and/or GCP).
• Detection engineering experience (SIEMs, rule creation, playbooks).

Responsabilidades

• Triage and prioritize large volumes of vulnerabilities from SAST/DAST tools.
• Build and apply a risk‑based prioritization model to identify critical issues.
• Partner with engineering teams to ensure remediation work is delivered.
• Own the lifecycle of security findings— from discovery through validation of fixes.
• Define and enforce remediation SLAs based on severity.
• Identify gaps in current security tooling and recommend improvements.
• Design and implement a proactive threat hunting program.
• Conduct hypothesis‑driven investigations based on threat modeling insights.
• Develop detection mechanisms and improve signal‑to‑noise ratio.
• Collaborate with engineering teams on incident response and mitigation strategies.

Conocimientos

Threat hunting

Vulnerability scanning

Cloud security (AWS/GCP)

Detection engineering

Descripción del empleo

Werben HR is looking for a Sr Security Engineer to support a high-impact SaaS platform. This remote position focuses on application security and cloud infrastructure security, ensuring the protection of sensitive data across large-scale environments.

The engineer will triage security vulnerabilities, collaborate with engineering teams on remediation efforts, and lead proactive threat hunting initiatives. Excellent experience with cloud security (AWS/GCP) and threat hunting programs is required.